J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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They're good players, and the knowledge and experience the new guys bring to this team is invaluable.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.